AM: ~2 hours 38'.
Cedar Blitz Gravel Race
34 miles @ 20.7 MPH @ 236 Watts (247 normalized)
I tried hard to stay with the front group, but my legs were shutting down around 6 miles or so. I felt like I was done. Tried to latch on to another group, died again. One of the women encouraged me, I tried to hold her wheel, gave up, but kept grinding and eventually started catching people and feeling ready to race around 40-45'. I did a fair amount of pulling to try to keep the pace up. I thought we had more miles but I could tell we wer already back in town as there was a turn onto a side street, so I started breaking from my group and picking off the guy who pulled ahead and I put in a solid effort into the finish.
Somewhat frustrated as I tried a longer warm up and a harder interval to try to prime the legs, but they still felt like they weren't fully awake. I am going to need to figure it out if I am going to be more competitive. I just feel like my bike fitness and racing is going backwards, but I am going to try to make some changes and see what I can do.
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